Happy gloom!
Dark Paradise! where pale becomes the bloom
Of health by due; where silence dreariest
Is most articulate; where hopes infest ;
Where those eyes are the brightest far that keep
Their lids shut longest in a dreamless sleep.

John Keats, Hyperion

Image:
Daniel Domig
And After This Our Exile, 2013
Oil on canvas
59 x 59 in. (149.9 x 149.9 cm)
Courtesy of Diana Lowenstein Gallery